Looking to replace my Pine A64 with a more powerful ROCK 64 4GB, but I need PoE power for my use case.  I understand the requirement for power is a 5V adapter with up to 3A current. 

So there are a few PoE Splitters out there, such as this one (http://www.poesystem.com/15.4w-poe-splitter/693.html) which can output 15.4W (5V/3A), but the specs tell me it's rated at 10/100Mbps, and has a 5.5mm barrel jack.  I'd have to get an adapter to drop to 3.5mm, but it's not worth it unless it can handle GbE speeds (or at least near).

Is there any known splitters out there that anyone could recommend?  Would save me time and potentially buying something that doesn't work.

Thanks!

Hi All,

Is there a SIM card adapter for Pine? I need to plug in a SIM for some testing.

Thanks,
Arpan

I created an user account earlier today and posted a topic on the forum. That user account seem to have been deleted or banned and I don't understand why. I don't know what rule or policy I may have broken. Can someone please PM or email me so that we can clarify what has happened?

Hello world. Hello world.

I received my pinebook 14 inch yesterday. It came with 3 half-dead black pixel on white background on original Xeinial Mate image ship. It is really not big deal. I just ran script to upgrade kernel, u-boot, and system to get rid of flicker backlight brightness problem. I started noticed noise random green pixel when I plugged power. Blue, green, and gray background are affected. Unplugged power will stop noise random green pixel in Armbian 5.32 image but Xeinial Mate 0.6.2 will not… just slowly continue in battery mode until sleep and wake up.

I am not only one. There is other person who have same problem as mine but he don’t mention power supply plug-in. Here’s link https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4843 That video is exently same problem as mine.

Sadly, Armbian 5.32 image caused my laptop got permanent 4th dead green pixel. It is worse nightmare than half-dead black pixel. I decided stop using Armbian image to come back Xeinial Mate 0.6.2. here's image https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9ywmn...mR4bzhoUlE My eyes see green

Here’s spec of my power supply https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9ywmn...TZEdjVKQXc Some guy in IRC said it’s ok.

Here are images I used
1. Original Xeinial Mate. (I am sure it is 0.5.2.)w
2. Upgraded Xeinial Mate 0.6.2 or 0.7.10-105, I think. I lost tracking again.
3. Stretch Minimal 0.7.10-105
4. Armbian 5.32

Now, I am using Xeinial Mate 0.6.2 on eMMc. (linux pinebook 3.10.105-bsp-1.2-ayufan-77 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun July 7 12:09: UTC 2017 arcg64 GNU/Linux) I am trying redownload Xeinial Mate 0.5.2-59 for SD card now. I’ll update it later.

P.S. I opened ticket support for just in case. maybe they send replacements board (and screen if they can) if USB adapter as power supply still caused problem.

EDIT: Downgraded Xeinial Mate 0.5.2. There are no longer noise random green pixel when i plugged power supply but backlight brightness flickering made me triggered mad until turn off auto reduce backlight brightness on power management for battery mode or upgrade 0.6.2. i have no choice. Just disabled auto reduce backlight brightness. I played wallpaper background with blue. No problem at all. Thanks to guy at IRC for tips. I thinking get screen replacement due to permanent 4th dead green pixel. Im updating ticket support.

Also, I really like Armbian because chrome performance and good modified XFCE and preinstalled programs. but I must stay away from Armbian 5.32 or upgrade Xeinial Mate 0.6.2 to avoid noise random green pixel problem. Keep in Armbian 5.32 and Xeinial Mate 0.5.2 still uses 56hz refresh rate. Xeinial Mate 0.6.2 uses 63hz. I think it is power management software problem, not refresh rate. Right now, I wanted report bug software but where? Let me know thanks.

• Insert your Pine SD card into your PC
  
• Download the latest img.gz file from https://downloads.blissroms.com/Bliss/Official/pine-a64+/  from your linux or windows PC.
  
• Then, using the Pine64 Installer, select Image, then browse to the downloaded img.gz file, and select that.
  
• Select the proper SDcard location, followed by the Flash button. Then wait for it to flash and validate.
  
• Finally, insert the SDcard back into the A64+, and power on. You should see a few seconds of black screen leading into the boot animation.
  

• Wifi
  
• BT
  
• video playback
  
• Substratum
  
• Root
  
• Bunches of other stuff .
  
• HDMI video @1080p and HDMI audio
  

• SuperSU will update, but not boot afterwards, so just don’t update.  
  
• Whatever I missed in my testing
  

• After the bootanimation completes, you will see a Android Starting progress bar on the screen. For speed sake, let’s wait till that finishes doing it’s thing. Then swipe down from the top, and select WiFi, and connect to your network.
  
• Next, swipe down from the top status bar again, and you should see a dialog asking to setup a backup account. Select that, and sign into your Google account.
  
• Finally, hit the Home button, and select your launcher (Select Google Now launcher for the traditional Android UI, or select Taskbar for the more desktop like, Freeform Windows based UI)
  

Hi,

I am trying to build Android kernel for Rock64. 
I got the kernel from https://github.com/rock64-android/kernel.
But I am not sure  which kernel config to use.
The arch/arm64/configs directory has
defconfig
rockchip_defconfig
rockchip_smp_noughat_defconfig

Any help is appreciated.

Vasant

i cant boot with linux in rock64, i just format with pine installer, im using toshiba exceria 16gb, android works but linux dont  

error output:

mmcblk1: error -84 sending status command, retrying
mmcblk1: error -84 sending status command, aborting
mmcblk1: error -84 sending status command, retrying
mmcblk1: error -84 sending status command, aborting
mmcblk1: error -84 sending status command, retrying
mmcblk1: error -84 sending status command, aborting
mmcblk1: error -84 sending status command, retrying
mmcblk1: error -84 sending status command, aborting


sd card tested with f3

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Telnet or ssh to rock64 linux system, when the data is large, such as dmesg or alsamixer, telnet or ssh will be stuck. This looks like a kernel bug, but I don't know how to fix it.

So, first, thank you for accepting me in the forum.  Just by reading around, I have learned allot.  I am no techie but have a bit of background in computers...  Just enough to get me in trouble!   Well, enough of that!  I have a couple of questions for our esteemed knowledgable crew here that I cant seem to find a way through or around.  After having my Pinebook for a couple of months, I am no go on these.

1-Printer drivers.  I use a Brother mfc 255cw which has a linux driver on their web site, BUT, will not install because "wrong architecture".  Any way around that, or through that?  No other generic seems to work at all.  Thoughts?

2. Do we have any idea of additional software will become available through the software boutique?  It starts, it runs, but nothing is there.  From what I read that might change soon?  Can I get software for the Pinebook any other way?

3.  Pinebook seems jumpy, hesitates, especially via internet work.  I am on a fast connect wifi that does not act that way on other computers.  Any ideas how that might be addressed?

I have run sudo apt updates && sudo apt upgrades to make sure I am up to date...

Any suggestions on the above is greatly appreciated.  

Hello, 


Is there any plan to support RTC on the Rock64 board? Will there be any extra RTC module?